The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.